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Season 1, Episode 1 Holiday Tables & Traditions

First Aired: December 20, 2011

A culinary celebration of the American immigrant experience, dishing on the traditional menus enjoyed by Italians on Christmas Eve and Mexican-Americans on Christmas Day; plus on Chinese New Year and at Passover Seder. Stanley Tucci and Mo Rocca help with the Italian feast of the seven fishes; San Antonio's Mi Tierra restaurateur Michael Cortez helps with tamales; writer Shirley Fong-Torres makes Chinese dumplings; and food writer Ruth Reichl prepares a Seder meal that includes beef brisket.